I'll see it when I believe it. % Even the best things are not equal to their fame. - Henry David Thoreau % The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. - Tacitus % Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. - Emily Dickinson % The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. - Fran¨ois de La Rochefoucauld % It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. - Nicolas Caussin % Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. - Horace Greeley % Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. - H. L. Mencken % The highest form of vanity is love of fame. - George Santayana % Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes % Fame is proof that people are gullible. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % The present condition of fame is merely fashion. - Gilbert K. Chesterton % If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. - Martial % ------------------------------------------- See also: Admiration, Esteem, Glory, Honor, Name, Reputation, Vanity All objects lose by too familiar a view. % - John Dryden % Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. % - Ouida % Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. % - Ed Howe % Familiar acts are beautiful through love. % - Percy Bysshe Shelley % Familiarity breeds contempt-and children. % - Mark Twain % ThoughI'll see it when I believe it. % Even the best things are not equal to their fame. % - Henry David Thoreau % The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. % - Tacitus % Fame is a fickle food % Upon a shifting plate. % - Emily Dickinson % The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. % - Fran¨ois de La Rochefoucauld